historic grail python browser "semi-recovered"

[lkcl]

um, please don't ask me why but i found grail, the python-based web
browser, and have managed to hack it into submission sufficiently to
view e.g. http://www.google.co.uk.  out of sheer apathy i happened to
have python2.4 still installed which was the only way i could get it
to run without having to rewrite regex expressions (which i don't
understand).

if anyone else would be interested in resurrecting this historic web
browser, just for fits and giggles, please let me know.

l.